shory

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English

Etymology

From shore +‎ -y.

Adjective

shory (not comparable)

(obsolete, rare) Lying near the shore.
- 1598, Jorge de Montemayor, translated by Bartholomew Yong, Diana of George of Montemayor, part 2, chapter 7, page 363:
  And that as firme as any brazen wall / And more then rocks vpon the shorie sandes
- 1697, Thomas Burnet, The theory of the earth containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things‎, page 60:
  […] at the same time were made the shory Rocks and Mountains which are the bars and boundaries of the Sea.
- 1821 October, “Leisure Hours. No. II. The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.”, in The London Magazine, page 392:
  The marsh was purpled with his clotted blood / He lay outstretched upon the shory mud

References

“shory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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